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Delayed on China Eastern Airlines from Gatwick to Shanghai (Pu Dong)?

£520each if you land 3 hours or more late

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Flights a year
1,354
Landed on time
86.9%
Distance apart
9,252 km

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Leaving Gatwick

£520each under UK law

Leaving Shanghai (Pu Dong)

£520each under UK law

Shanghai (Pu Dong) is outside the UK and EU, so coming back this only applies if a UK or EU airline operated the flight.

Gatwick to Shanghai (Pu Dong) is 9,252 km, which fixes the figure: £520 each leaving Gatwick, and the same £520 each coming back if a UK or EU airline operated the flight. It is per person, so four of you is £2,080.

How China Eastern Airlines does on this route

Better or worse than the route itself?

Everyone flying Gatwick to Shanghai (Pu Dong) hits the same airspace and the same two airports, so the honest question is not whether the route is busy, it is whether this airline handles it better or worse than the others on it.

On this route China Everyone
Landed on time 86.9% 85.6%
Average delay 7.5 min 8.7 min
Landed 3 hours or more late 0.4% 0.5%

China Eastern Airlines flies 64% of this route, so the right-hand column is mostly its own flights being averaged back at it. The comparison that means something here is against the rest of its network.

Against its own network it is 2 points better than usual: China Eastern Airlines lands on time 84.9% of the time across all 2,080 of its UK flights a year, against 86.9% here.

In money terms: about 5 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 250. Everyone on board one of those is owed £520 each.

Other airlines on this route

Same two airports, same 9,252 km, same £520.

Airline Landed on time
Air China 83.4%

Everything we hold on Gatwick to Shanghai (Pu Dong) · China Eastern Airlines across every UK airport

Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority punctuality statistics, July 2025 to June 2026. Analysis by CheckFlightCompensation; the CAA is credited as the data source as its publication conditions require. Figures cover the 25 largest UK airports. Methodology and limitations.